- Hilda Luthersdottir
Breast/IM
- CLASS
- JR
- Hometown
- Hafnarfjordur, Iceland (Flensborg)
- Experience
- School
2011
Iceland National Team Member
Seven-Time All-American Selection
One-Time
All-SEC Selection
2011 SEC All-Freshman Team Honoree
Top
Times
(Yards)
50 Free:
24.30 (2011 Georgia
Tech Fall Invitational)
100 Free: 52.94 (2011
All-Florida Invitational)
100
Breast: 1:00.05 (2012 NCAA Championships)
200 Breast: 2:10.15 (2012
SEC Championships)
200 IM: 1:57.84 (2011
SEC Championships)
400
IM: 4:29.41 (2011 All-Florida
Invitational)
(Meters)
50 Breast: 32.37 (2011
FINA World Championships)
100 Breast: 1:09.82 (2011
FINA World Championships)
200 Breast: 2:34.06
(2011 De Canet Mare Norstrum)
200 IM: 2:18.20 (2011
FINA World Championships)
UF
All-Time Rankings
(Yards)
100
Breast: First
(1:00.05)
200 Breast: Second (2:10.15)
200
IM: Eighth
(1:57.84)
200 Medley Relay: Fifth (1:37.29)
Sixth (1:37.40)
400
Medley Relay: Second
(3:32.93)
Fourth (3:34.02) - twice
(Meters)
100
Breast: Second
(1:09.82)
200
Breast: Fourth (2:32.46)
National/International Competition: Represented Iceland at
the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China…Finished 26th
in both the 200-meter IM and 100-meter breast, touching in 2:18.20 and 1:09.82,
respectively…A member of the Iceland National Team
who holds several Icelandic age-group records…Finished 12th in the
50 and 200-meter breaststroke at the 2010 FINA Short-Course World Championships
in Dubai, while also placing 16th in the 100 breast and 22nd
in the 100 IM…At the 2009 European Short-Course Championships, placed 28th
in the 200-meter IM, 29th in the 50 breast, 34th in the
200 breast and 36th in the 100 breast…Finished 37th in
the 200-meter breast at the 2009 FINA World Championships, while placing 49th
in the 100 breast and 47th in the 50 breast…Competed at the 2008
European Short-Course World Championships, finishing 25th in the 100
IM, 27th in the 100-meter breast and 30th in the 50
breast.
2011-12:
Named to the 2012 SEC
Academic Honor Roll…Collected three All-America honors at the 2012 NCAA
Swimming and Diving Championships with performances in both the 100 and 200
breast, and as a member of the 400 medley relay team…Broke her own school
record in the 100 breast after she stopped the clock at 1:00.05 to finish 13th
at the NCAA meet…Finished fifth in both the 100y (1:00.60) and 200y breast
(2:10.15) at the 2012 SEC Championships, recording a career-low swim in the
200y breast, besting her performance at last year’s NCAA championships, and
added an eighth-place finish in the 200y IM (1:59.35) to make an appearance in
each of her event’s championship finals…Finished second in both the 100y
(1:02.24) and 200y breast (2:14.39) against Tennessee…Claimed both breast
titles in the Gators’ victory over Auburn stopping the clock at 1:10.89 in the
100m breast and 2:33.44 in the 200m breast…swam a personal-best 59.49 in the
100y back against FAU….Took second in the 100y (1:02.35) and 200y breast
(2:15.02) at the Georgia Tech Invitational…Touched in 2:18.22 for second in the
200y breast and in 2:23.71 for fifth in the 200m IM in the double-dual victory
over both Michigan and Stanford…Against Georgia, finished two-three in the 200m
(2:36.78) and 100m breast (1:13.48)…At the Dallas Classic, stopped the clock at
1:02.84 for second in the 100y breast, and at 2:16.28 for eighth in the 200y
breast…Recorded a personal-best 5:02.92 for fifth in the 500y free vs.
Arkansas, and added a win in the 100y breast (1:02.85)…Finished one-two in the
SEC opener against LSU in the 100y (1:03.68) and 200y (2:17.46),
respectively…Opened her sophomore season with a win in the 100y breast
(1:03.62)
…Helped lead head coach Gregg Troy to his 12th consecutive top-10
finish at NCAA’s.
2010-11: Selected as a 2011 CSCAA Division I
Scholar All-America Award Winner…In her NCAA debut, picked up her first four
All-America honors, including both the 100 (100.16) and 200 breast (2:10.19) as
well as both the 200 (1:38.95) and 400 MR (3:35.61)…Broke the school record in
the 100 breast with a time of 1:00.10 during the preliminary round at
NCAA’s…Her personal best time in the 200 breast (2:10.19) at NCAA’s marked the
fastest time in the event by a UF swimmer since the previous record was set in
2003 by Vipa Bernhardt…Named to the SEC All-Freshman
Team in the 100 breast following her fifth place finish in the event at the
conference championships… Teamed up with fellow swimmers Sarah Bateman, Alana Pazevic and Ellese Zalewski in the 200 MR to record a UF season-best NCAA
provisional mark of 1:37.40 at the SEC Championships …Picked up her first
collegiate honor when selected as the SEC Female Freshman of the Week for Feb.
1 following her then career-best times in both the 100 (1:01.29) and 200 breast
(2:13.64)…Tallied 11 victories throughout her freshman campaign with four
individual and two relay titles…Against Tennessee, set three NCAA qualifying
times with a sweep of the breaststroke events and a win as a member of the
Gator 200 MR…Made her Gator debut with two victories against Georgia Tech in
both the 200 MR and 100 breast…Helped lead head coach Gregg Troy to his 11th
consecutive top-10 finish at NCAA’s.
Prior to Florida: Graduated from Flensborg, where she trained with Sundfelag
Hafnarfjardar under head coach Klaus J. Ohk…Was elected the Female Swimmer of the Year for 2010 in
Iceland…Named the Female Sportsman of the Year in 2010 in her hometown of Hafnarfjordur…Finished top 10 in 2010 Sportsman of the Year
voting for her home country of Iceland… Earned Female Swimmer of the Meet
honors at 2009 and 2010 Icelandic Championships…Elected her club team’s Female
Swimmer of the Year for 2009 and 2010.
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